Morning journal and courier., 1887-08-02
FArAL EFFEors OF THE HEAT

FATAL EFFE0TS OF THE HEAT. Two Deaths From Sunstroke and
 Many Cases of fProstratiOn-MOreT Tor
 rid, HOrrid, Depressing and sticky
 Weather PrOmiSed-Physfcfan Kept
 Rusy-s49's DysenterY Panic New
 Ravens Health Averages Well-The
 Most Uncomfortable Summer Month
 in Thirty Years.
 As the torrid term continues the number of cases of prostration grow larger daily. The heat yesterday was oppressive, but not quite so unbearable as that of Sunday. The humidity has now begun to tell on the adults. For the past month or so the babies have been suffering and dying by the doz- ems, but the constant humidity is now talk ing down strong men.
 Thomas English, hod-carrier living at 22 Day street, went home Saturday night and complained of feeling bad about the head. He had carried mortar for five men all day. He refused to see a doctor, however, and went to bed. Sunday morning he got up feeling better. He drank some ice water and went out of doors, when he was pros trated at once. Dr. Reilly did all that was possible, but his patient died in few min utes. A very sad feature of this case is that he leaves a wife and seven children, the old est of which is fourteen years of age and the youngest is but two weeks. He will be buried in St. Bernard's cemetery to-day. Michael Garono, an Italian living at No. 19 Union street, died suddenly on Sunday from sunstroke. He was forty years of age and native of Naples. Both of these cages were looked into by Medical Examiner White. John Jones, a horseshoer employed at Palmer's blacksmith shop and residing at 132 | Meadow street, was stricken down while at l work at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon and the police ambulance took him to the hospi- | tai. The hospital physicians will pull him l through all right.
 Michael Heatherton, laborer residing at | 72 Oak street, was employed in carrying the bod at building in course of erection on the corner of Commerce street and Columbus | avenue yesterday afternoon when he was suddenly stricken down by the heat. The ambulance took him to the hospital, where for an hour his life was despaired of. Early in the evening his condition had improv ed and the physicians gave hope of his recovery.
 The physicians of the city have been kept busy constantly during the past month or more. Some of the older practitioners report that never before in their time have they seen such long, constant period of oppres- sive and almost unbearable heat. A number of physicians think that the dysentery epi- demic of 1S49 will return if this heated term continues much longer. Dysentery in mild form has developed itself. In 1S49 this dis ease was epidemic in New Haven and carried off scores of New Haven people. For about eight years the disease stayed, but it grew less fatal year by year and finally died out altogether. Since that time there have been comparatively few cases of the disease in this city. One physician had eighteen cases of prostration from 2 o'clock Saturday evening to noon yesterday.
 Said a Chapel street merchant last night: "We had struggled through a solid month with the thermometer at 90, the month of July, and wilte1 and crushed, we went to bed last night congratulating ourselves on it's final termination. But the new conner, Au- gust, promises to keep us on the gridiron, so to speak. August has a greater advantage also over July. The latter month came down upon us while we were fresh and wig orous from the pleasant air of June. But let us hope for the coming of an Arctic wave at an early date"
 The clerks in the dry goods stores suffer much from the heat. There are many cases of slight prostration that take place daily among them.
 The records show that although the num- Der of deaths here in July is greater than usual, it is less by eleven than in July, 1885, when it was 198, and is only one ahead of July, 1883, when 186 died.
 It would be unfair to dismiss the July weather without mentioning two or three of it's special features. It was probably the most uncomfortable summer month within the memory of this generation. The ther mometer and the hygrometer have acted like fiends in partnership. Whenever one of them has stopped for breath the other has promptly reported for torture duty. When it has not been very hot it has been very hu- mid. When the atmosphere has not been progressively laden with moisture the suns rays have been blazingIy hot The rainfall has been enormous. The frequent and very heavy thunder showers have almost invaria- bly, served to increase the discomfort of the situation. They have not brought the cool northwest breeze and the clarified, revivify- ing atmosphere which both experience and hope often lead us to expect after period of three or four days of intense heat. The black clouds and brilliant electrical displays in the northern sky have only foretokened the in definite postponement of the looked for change. For that reason these demonstra tions have come to be dreaded, and not vel comed as in ordinary summers.
 The prospects are that the weather will be hotter and dryer to-day. As the torrid term continues in the city the cooler retreats on the hills or by the seaside waves become crowded until comfort is almost lost in the throng despite the lower temperature. The proprietors of summer resorts are about the only persons who take a rosy view of life in this hot weather. The shore resorts report the number of patrons as unusually large 
 The signal service man did not attempt to account for the remarkable percentage of hu- midity with which we are being favored. He said quietly and firmly that it was likely to continue.
 The funeral services ever the remains of Garrett G. Rose, who was sunstruck Satur- day, took place yesterday afternoon from the residence of his father-in-law, IF Hamilton street.
 A New Britain physician, whose testimony conforms to that of Hartford and New Haven doctors, says he never has known such 8 pro- tracted continuance of great heat and mois- ture. He finds it bad for the health of his patients, and to avoid sickness in his own family he has taken up all his carpets and sprinkled an antiseptic agent all over the floors. The carpets were getting very mouldy as, indeed everything does in such weather; one cannot leave 8 pair of boots twenty-four hours in closet without finding an incipient fungous growth all over them. The New Britain doctor says if the dampness continues few days longer he shall start up his winter furnace fire to dry the house.
 Special Notice.
 Howe & Stetson will close their store on all Fridays in August at 12 noon.
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